President Donald Trump appears unfazed that a Cabinet-level envoy appeared to be advising the other side in ongoing foreign-policy negotiations.

After Bloomberg published a bombshell report on Tuesday revealing a purported transcript of U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff, who has been credited with helping to broker the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and who is currently working on U.S. efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, guiding Vladimir Putin’s senior foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov on how the Kremlin could best get through to Trump.

According to the transcript, which TIME could not independently verify, Witkoff recommended during the Oct. 14 conversation with Ushakov that Putin speak on the phone with Trump before the U.S. President

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